Great Finance Firms · Quant & trading
Renaissance Technologies
A codebreaker-mathematician hired scientists, not traders, and built the Medallion fund, arguably the greatest money machine ever: tiny statistical edges, huge numbers of trades, and a culture of shared code and secrecy.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Probability & expected value, Statistics (helpful). Next: Citadel & Citadel Securities. Book: *The Man Who Solved the Market* (Zuckerman).Next: 1. Jim Simons